Hetu Nandu is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently shaping the developer experience at Appsmith out of Bengaluru. As the third engineer at Appsmith he built and maintains the JavaScript Evaluation Engine that powers the editor’s reactive framework—handling AST-based dependency tracking, linting, autocomplete and runtime validation—and contributes backend fixes and table-widget improvements to the open-source appsmithorg/appsmith repo. His background spans frontend data-visualization and search at SteelEye, mobile and ML-adjacent work at Codebrahma, and multiple founder roles delivering products that reached thousands of users. Comfortable across full-stack systems, build pipelines and CI, he mentors engineers and drives composable UX improvements via feature-flag strategies. A practical builder with startup grit, he blends product sensibility from his BBA with deep technical ownership of core platform infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
HSC, Commerce, HSC, Commerce at Narsee Monjee College of Commerce and Economics
Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration, Marketing at Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies(NMIMS)
10th, ICSE, 10th, ICSE at LilavatiBai Podar Senior Secondary School
Platform to build admin panels, internal tools, and dashboards. Integrates with 25+ databases and any API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:2536 reviews, 876 commits, 1632 PRs in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Hetu's commits primarily involve modifying the `evaluate.ts` file, indicating a focus on the application's core logic and functionality. The contributions involve bug fixing and optimization of the codebase. The user is also involved in the table widget functionality.
Contributions:9 PRs, 9 pushes, 7 branches in 3 years 11 months
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